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When I got into the sport I was so fat that my manager said he should send me to boot camp to lose the weight!

Most of all, our troops from Alabama said they appreciate the care packages from folks back home.

Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.

I am not going to answer to this so-called court, out of respect for the truth and the will of the Iraqi people. I've said what I've said, and I'm not guilty.

It is death that goes down to the center of the earth, the great burial church the earth is, and then to the curved ends of the universe, as light is said to do.

I went up a straight crooked lane and, I said 'No thanks, yes if yer please.

These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.

They offered me that film before I did Frida and I said, no, I'm not capable of directing. Then after seeing Julie direct, I was inspired by it. She motivated me to do it, because we don't have role models as woman for directors.

Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed and said, In that case, what is the question? Then she died.

Oscar Wilde said the rich and the poor are equal - they can both sleep under the bridge. Right? Do they have a right? You're damn right they have a right!

That said, ID does not qualify as science because it gives us nothing to test or measure. Science requires replicable tests involving measurable variables.

Then I did one fight scene, and they said it looked good. Because I did it well enough, they've given me more.

People have said to me, You can't write songs. You can't play an instrument. But I've got 10 gold records.

I once said the Queen of England could use some fashion advice.

I saw part of The Singing Detective on TV in New York. I said, Something is going on here.

Naturally, the reader has access only to the events I show and the way I show them, but as has been said, there's generally a good deal of ambiguity in that presentation.

I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.

She said it had been hijacked shortly after takeoff. By this time, the plane had been in the air - again, I'm presuming that it took off on time - for over an hour.

There is one final point I would like to make this week. As I said on the floor of the House during deliberation of this latest supplemental, hope is something Americans should never lose. Let each of us, both by our words and actions, continue to provide that hope.

I've never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can.

When I said the city would be stronger, I didn't know that. I just hoped it. There are parts of you that say, 'Maybe we're not going to get through this.' You don't listen to them.

I wanted to join the Army the sign said 'Be All That You Can Be', they told me it wasn't enough.

You know, Willie Wonka said it best: we are the makers of dreams, the dreamers of dreams.

When I came out rapping on my record, a lot of people said, Oh, you just want to be like Puff.

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

As President Obama clearly said just a few months ago, China must play by the international rules, the international trading system from which they've benefited so much.

When I was president of the company, I said, 'Okay, I can do this - piece of cake.' Then when you are the CEO, the responsibilities multiply enormously because you worry about everything.

Lorne finally said, Do the Blues Brothers thing. The response was amazing. People went nuts.

There's as much crookedness as you want to find. There was something Abraham Lincoln said - he'd rather trust and be disappointed than distrust and be miserable all the time. Maybe I trusted too much.

I always said all my life if I wasn't born and they gave me the question I'd say I don't want to be born.